Following revisions to the summer timetable have been announced by bmi:

East Midlands: Glasgow, Edinburgh and Amsterdam all with an extra daily except Saturday service. Belfast City sees two extra daily services on weekdays, daily at weekends. Paris extra Sunday service. All from 16th March.

Heathrow: extra daily Belfast Aldergrove service from 31st March

Manchester: extra weekday service to Glasgow from 16th March, Brussels route terminated 3rd March and Dusseldorf transferred to Lufthansa 31st March (as per UK_Dispatcher's thread yesterday)

Leeds-Bradford: New daily except Saturday service to Cork from 1st May. Extra Edinburgh service from 16th March.

EMA-FRA is interesting. If you try and book the flight it gives you FRA-BHX on LH, then a connection from BHX to EMA on BD 9990, which takes an hour. Is this a bus transfer or something? It is not mentioned in their displayed itinerary. Are they being cheeky?

The BD99.. flight numbers used to be for operational positioning, and indeed I believe IATA standards suggest that airlines shouldn't use that flight number range for "normal" revenue flights. I find it hard to believe that they'd run a flight between EMA and BHX, so I'd guess its either a smoke and mirrors job to disguise the fact they're pulling out of EMA-FRA, or indeed the BD9990/BD9993 will be operated by equipment type "BUS" (actually, isn't RFS the more correct designation?).

I'm just trying to book a Tucson to SFO ticket and UAL is suggesting a Tucson to San Jose flight connecting to a San Jose to San Francisco "flight" it doesn't mention anything about a bus. Are they allowed to do this? Maybe it's the new Star Alliance bus service? Maybe Stagecoach is joining Star Alliance?

Airlines do show BUS as equipment type (LH run them between FRA and eg Heidelburg). RFS usually refers to road feeder service for airline numbered cargo trucks - I have never seen it operate for pax services.

BTW the BD 9990 had a journey time of 1 hour, so I cannot imagine that it is a flight transfer. The BMI note says that after examining my request for a fare EMA-FRA, it has come up with the FRA-BHX-EMA service, though it does not show either the transfer point or equipment type. One of the poorest resrvation systems I have seen.

• Stuttgart – an additional early morning flight from Germany and a later evening flight from London will increase the number of return flights from three to four a day, Monday to Friday.
• Belfast International – an additional early morning flight from Belfast and a later evening flight from London will increase the number of return flights from three to five a day, Monday to Friday.
• Brussels – an extra daily return flight Monday to Friday, increasing the number of services from six to seven a day.
• Paris – an additional early morning departure from Heathrow at 0840, will increase the number of return flights from five to six, Monday to Friday.